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Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director. Early years. Hart was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker. [1] [2] He had a younger brother, Bernard. [3] .
May 30, 2012 · Moss Hart is remembered primarily for his perpetually best-selling memoir, Act One, a gauzy valentine to Broadway that chronicles his improbable rise from tenement-born Bronx boy to...
Moss Hart (born Oct. 24, 1904, New York City—died Dec. 20, 1961, Palm Springs, Calif., U.S.) was one of the most successful U.S. playwrights of the 20th century. At 17 Hart obtained a job as office boy for the theatrical producer Augustus Pitou. He wrote his first play at 18, but it was a flop.
Oct 11, 2012 · Since 1959, acclaimed playwright Moss Hart’s Act One has inspired theater buffs, morphing from a best-selling memoir to a Hollywood film to an upcoming stage production.
May 13, 2001 · At the time of his death, in 1961, Moss Hart was one of Broadway's benevolent mandarins—admired, ubiquitous, well liked, and known far beyond Times Square, thanks to his movie scripts and...
Jun 11, 2018 · HART, MOSS (1904–1961), U.S. playwright. Born and raised on New York 's East Side, Hart wrote his first play when he was 12 and gained early experience as a producer in Jewish clubs. His first success was Once in a Lifetime (1930), a satire on Hollywood written in collaboration with George S. *Kaufman .
Moss Hart. Writer: You Can't Take It with You. Tony Award-winning American playwright/lyricist Moss Hart was born Oct. 24, 1904, in New York City to a poor Jewish family and raised in what he described as a "drab tenement" on 107th St. in the Bronx. He was educated in the city public school system.
